Female Employment and Fertility: The Effects of Rising Female Wages

Christian Siegel

No 1058, 2013 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over the last 30 years the US total fertility rate has been stable while female wages have continued to grow. Over the same period, women's hours spent on housework have declined, but men's have increased. I propose a model with a shrinking gender wage gap that captures these trends. While rising relative wages increase women's labor supply, they also lead to a reallocation of home production from women to men, and a higher use of labor-saving inputs. Both are important in understanding why fertility did not decline further.

Date: 2013
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